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or·gan·i·cism (ôr-gn-szm)
n.
1. The theory that all disease is associated with structural alterations of organs.
2. The theory that the total organization of an organism, rather than the functioning of individual organs, is the principal or exclusive determinant of every life process.


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In western epistemology a series of oppositions functioned--and still function-"implicitly to define the body in nonhistorical, naturalistic, organicist, passive, inert terms.
41) Hamilton's organicist psychiatry was much more compatible with what came next.
If this is vague, so are the most famous Darwinian and organicist passages in Holmes's writings.
 
 
 
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